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Professional Outsourced Controller Services for Growing Businesses

Standard bookkeepers log past entries, but our bookkeepers tracks past numbers, while a controller manages your daily cash flow. Through our outsourced controller services, we handle accounts payable and receivable management, track job cost accounting services, and run a monthly margin review to build clean reports for lenders, auditors, and business partners.

  • Segment-level costing
  • AP and AR managed
  • CPA-reviewed

What changes

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Four moments that shift when professional outsourced controller services manage your daily books

The moment
Usually
With ACE CPAs

A project wraps up.

You find out profit numbers after spending the cash. Estimates and actuals do not match because nobody tracked the drift.

You review monthly margin review reports early, allowing time to adjust pricing and project scope before funds run out.

A vendor calls about an unpaid bill.

Unpaid invoices sit in unread email inboxes until the vendor gets frustrated and calls your office directly.

Through active accounts payable and receivable management, bills enter regular payment schedules and bank statements get checked monthly.

A customer is ninety days out.

Nobody chased it, because chasing it was not anyone's actual job. The cash is stuck and you find out when you need it.

Overdue balances are followed up on as part of the engagement, not left on your desk between other work.

A bank asks for a P&L.

Invoices stay overdue because nobody has time to chase payments. Cash gets trapped until an emergency hits.

You deliver clean reports featuring strict job cost accounting services and department cost tracking built specifically for lenders.

What a controller function covers

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Our outsourced controller services provide the vital financial layer missing between your day-to-day bookkeeper and your corporate CPA.

  • Accounts payable and receivable oversightVendor bills get paid on time, supplier statements are checked every single month, and incoming customer funds are applied without delays.‍
  • Project and department expense trackingWe break down revenue and expenses by individual job, department, or client. This includes job cost accounting services and department cost tracking so you see budget shifts immediately.
  • Reports built for lenders and partnersYour income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports are prepared specifically for banks and auditors instead of relying on default software settings.
  • Regular financial margin reviewsEach month, we run a monthly margin review to show where your profit sits, which parts of the business grew, and what numbers changed.

Fractional controller compared with hiring a full-time employee

Hiring a full-time controller means fixed salaries, benefits, and high overhead costs that are hard to reduce if business slows down. Choosing outsourced controller services gives you a predictable monthly fee backed by a licensed CPA, alongside a full bookkeeping and tax team that handles your daily numbers.

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Some clients replace full-time hires entirely with our team. Others keep an internal bookkeeper and bring us in to manage the accounts payable and receivable oversight, job cost accounting services, and monthly margin review layer above them. Both setups work smoothly, depending on how much of your financial department you prefer to run in-house.

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How our partnership works

  1. Review phaseA licensed CPA evaluates your current accounts payable and receivable management, job cost tracking, and financial reporting. We identify gaps and outline the exact steps needed to fix them.
  2. Structure setupWe define clean accounts payable and receivable oversight workflows, configure job cost accounting services for your specific project segments, and build reporting templates designed around your business model.
  3. Monthly executionWe handle ongoing outsourced controller services, update your monthly margin review metrics as work progresses, and deliver finished financial statements backed by formal CPA reviews.

Bring three months of statements.

Thirty minutes with a licensed CPA. We go through what you have and tell you the first thing we would change, whether or not you engage us.